Marie Scuttlestone (beng4eva)
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Character Name: Marie Scuttlestone
Player Log in: beng4evaMarie was born to doting parents in a small halfling village in the foothills of the Dragonspine Mountains, 50 miles from Dagger Falls. The third of seven children, she spent a lot of time with her brothers and sisters, running around the village and generally causing havoc. Hers was a happy childhood, and mostly bereft of sorrow. But, living in the shadows of the Dragonspire, and in the same region as the Zhentarim meant that the happy times can't continue forever.
Her people had lived in this village with the humans and half-elves for more than a century. And when their village was founded all that time ago, several rules were put in place. One of the rules was that out of every generation in every family, one must go to the monastery and learn the ways of the masters there, to protect the village from the Zhentarim and any other marauding beasts. Each race was represented there, with a master of each style able to teach their acolytes everything they needed to learn, asides from the experience that only life can bring.
When she came of age, her parents told her that she would be the one from their family to go, for her older brothers were helping with the farming and her younger brothers and sisters didn't show the aptitude for the learning that must occur.
Nodding dumbly, she accepted this without understanding what it would mean.
Several weeks later she was put on a cart for Dagger Falls, and from there to the monastery in the Border Forest. There she met Krospyn Malecant, Master of the Hin Fist.
Over the next 4 years she learnt everything that Krospyn could teach her; how to move with a blow to dampen in, how to strike your foe quickly and mercilessly, and how to roll with an explosion. Other things that she learnt didn't seem to make any sense; exercises teaching her to dodge raindrops, focusing on the flame in the darkness at night until nothing exists except for the flame, and closing her mind to all distractions, even a fight in front of her.
Her master advised her that he had nothing more to teach her, that she must go out into the realms and find her way to inner perfection. Only then would she be able to protect her people.
He gifted her with three things; A cloak of her favourite colours, light clothing to aid her movement in the shadows, and a pair of gloves to protect her fists. Thus equipped, she set out for Dagger Falls.
Once there, she arranged for passage on a ship in exchange for working on board as long as she was there.
A year spent sailing the rivers and seas of the Realms taught her much, especially that sailors are prone to exaggeration. Eventually though, after much consternation and indecision, she settled on a port to start her search for the way. Norwick, in the Narfell.
Now she seeks to understand all the lessons she was taught by her master, and equip herself to protect her people against the dangers of their homeland.
One day she will return to them, but for now, she is here.
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